Evaluation Resources and Mini-Tutorial for MapPoint

This is a discussion on Evaluation Resources and Mini-Tutorial for MapPoint within the MapPoint Desktop Discussion forums, part of the Map Forums category; An online test drive (and mini-tutorial) for MapPoint is available here:
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This uses the Citrix Browser ...

Evaluation Resources and Mini-Tutorial for MapPoint

This uses the Citrix Browser Plug-in which was a little slow to get started with my wireless "Broadband" connection (Sprint EVDO), but with a little patience it did finally load. The registration is quick and painless. But doing Citrix (like WebEx or VNC) stuff with graphics and maps over the internet with EVDO is just too slow. I'd recommend to check this out when you are on a faster broadband connection.

This is straightforward, again it does take a little while to load on a slow connection but once it does it is easy to view and navigate without any lag. It is slick and quickly shows many things that can be visualized and lots of things you can do with MapPoint. (But I'd recommend to turn off the sound :- ).

Re: Evaluation Resources and Mini-Tutorial for MapPoint

Any thoughts on where to find more info. The tutorial is fine, but I want to learn how to customize my views (ie - only show one state at a time or show the entire US - all 50 states - without making the map so big that it includes Canada and Mexico)...

Finally this forum has a great wealth of information, Search for any topic using the tool above.

Richard is right about displaying individual states, it's not perfect, but we have the template which can cover up states with a white polygon. Hopefully Microsoft will make it more seamless in future version of MapPoint.